Sixty times faster than a T1!

I remember working on a 120 baud modem. Not 120k, but 120, or 12 characters per second. When we upgraded to 300 I really though we had something.

Tom

 

Ah, the good ole days.

Of course, back then nobody could have foreseen 10 MB PowerPoint attachments of naughty girls, or HD Internet Porn.

Yes, we certainly have progressed ....

 

Been there. I still remember my Compuserve and Genie ID's. I probably still have a list of dial-up BBS's if I looked in my file cabinet. Pre-WWW was bleak but interesting and then came AOL . . . . I remember paying $700 for a USR Courier Dual Standard HST v-32 bis 14,400 and thinking it was a great price. I still have it.

 

Bunch of fossils reminiscing about the good ole days.

Tom

 

Who are you calling a fossil .... snooorrrrre

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Snooooooorrrrre

mumble mumble whippersnapper mumble

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Well, that's close enough to the truth. When have they ever been right about anything?

I remember back in 1990 or so, I was attending a lecture that was promising all sort of wonderful things from this new fangled Internet thing: we wouldn't have to work anymore, a lifestyle straight from the Jetson's ,etc

A friend of mine, who was also in the Army with me, leaned over and mentioned that he thought the only thing it would be used for was red hot porn.

I suppose he did have a naughty mind. Far worse than I am

 

The flying cars I can do without. But I'm sorely disappointed we don't have robot woman slaves in our homes

 

Correction: anatomically correct robot woman slaves

 

This reminds me of my first computer, the old Southwest Technical 6800 SWTP for a printer I had a Teletype KSR 33 TELETYPE MODEL 33 PAGE PRINTER That puppy used a 110 baud 20MA current loop interface, 10CPS printing speed (required 2 stop bits, that's where the difference in baud rate VS speed comes). Unlike the ones pictured in the link, mine did not have the paper tape reader/punch, but when that thing ran, the whole house would shake.

 

i also have Comcast and daniel if you are getting 30 Mbs all the time, consider yourself lucky. i am sitting less than 10 miles away from one of their major servers and i just tested it over the past few days. just ran it at 8.30 PM and got 21 Mbs. but try running it at 5 PM...lucky to get 4 Mbs.

21 Mbs is the 2nd highest i have ever gotten. i run speedtest all the time. the average i get SINCE i moved is around 15-18 Mbs... before when i lived next to the bay WITHIN one mile of the main server, i NEVER got over 10 Mbs.

so, the real determining factor is most likely the condition of the cabling to your house. i now live in a house that is 9 years old. before i lived in a house that was 90 years old. dont know how old the cable was, but probably older than what i have now.

 

Of course they knew it was for porn even way back in those days.
You never ran off one of those ascii-bitmap pinups on the lineprinter??
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_H*

 

I won't go all the way back to my Timex Sinclair. Or my first Kaypro running CPM. Or how exciting it was when the giant floppies became 2-sided. I'll just go back to how excited I was to install my first MB of RAM. Soon followed by my first 10 MB HD. And I had just as much headroom then as I do today with 8GB of RAM and 1TB of Hard Drive. Truly it does astonish me how far we've come, and haw fast we can gobble up resources. I now take individual photographs that would have filled my first HD. Just a few seconds of video would do the same, and I have countless hours of it sitting around now.

Oooh Wait! Wireless. I remember when wireless broadband was being discussed, and I just didn't believe it. There was NO way we could have anything useable without wires. Impossible. Now I sit here with my cordless mouse and keyboard, three rooms away from my router where I'm streaming music into the living room and can stream porn videos onto my lapdance...errr laptop. And then I think about what it'll be like for my daughter when she's my age. I mean assuming civilization still exists.

 

Oh gawd, but you're picky

I want Hitatchi or another respected company to introduce an anatomically correct woman slave robot, certified for home use. I'd pay up to $25,000 for one

Awesome, that would have made you an Uber Geek back then

Yes, the quality/age/condition of the cables make a huge difference. One other thing: in a new area if some doofus forgets to call before you dig, will snag a buried cable, and hastily patch it and not tell anybody. That's cute

Then, a few months to a year later, everybody is complaining about fuzzy picture quality and very slow internet speeds. They have to figure out where the cable had been cut, and fix it properly

Sure, but the quality was so poor it barely even hinted at what part you were looking at. We just kept using glossy pinups

I see that we share the same sinister mind